It's obvious as daylight. First of all hermes payload just added functionality, it didn't screw anything up, however, you can not load every game successfully from APP_HOME because some of them use the usual path that is bd_dvd, this means they only will run if they are booting from your Blu-ray drive.

Wrong, GOW3 works fine for me with the disk inside if you boot it from bd_dvd but it won't run from APP_HOME even with thte disk inside.

uncharted2 runs without any disk from internal hard.

Originally Posted by sk group

then have a fake bd drive?

Yeah, what the usual backup manager did and the new one is still doing is that it fakes the blu-ray drive but this can only be done if there is a disk in your bd drive, otherwise we have to hack the firmware, which has not been done so far.